Based on my testing, an SD digital channel recording will consume about 1.6 gigabytes of hard drive space per hour netting you about 100 hours of SD digital recordings. Of course that all depends on how much the signal is already compressed before being sent. But since it's aleady in a digital format there is no quality loss due to compression at the TiVo as there would be when recording an SD analog channel.

Just a reminder that if you have any suggestions for the FAQ, send me a private message.

FYI - Multi-room Viewing and Tivo-to-Go ARE available on the Tivo HD. I don't know why the FAQ says they're not. I haven't connected two Tivos yet. But, if you go to http://www.tivo.com/guides and look up the Home Media Features Guide, it says that it can do it.

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Thus far my TiVo has been performing very well and I am very pleased with my transition from DirecTivo satellite to standalone TiVo HD with analog basic and OTA HD.

I do need to greatly improve my antenna for OTA HD though. My signal strength ranges between 55ish up to 95ish depending on the station, the weather, planetary alignment, etc. However, I'm about 22 miles from the towers, below a hill, with two 150 foot trees in the way... so I'm not surprised. I'm using a cheap $30 Radio Shack outdoor UHF antenna on a stubby 18 inch mast (hehe, I took off the Directv dish and just mounted the antenna to the existing J-mount). I'm sure it will improve if I setup a 10 foot mast with a better antenna.

Just a reminder that if you have any suggestions for content, let me know.

I am a little confused. I have a series 2 tivo box and HD cable box with HD services like TNTHD, DSC theater and all that good stuff plus the digital choice channels. Would tivo HD replace my HD Cable box and still receive the above services?
sorry for the dumb question

I am a little confused. I have a series 2 tivo box and HD cable box with HD services like TNTHD, DSC theater and all that good stuff plus the digital choice channels. Would tivo HD replace my HD Cable box and still receive the above services?
sorry for the dumb question

Yes, you'd have the Tivo HD, and one M-card or two S-card digital cable cards that you would need to rent from your local provider.

The Tivo HD would tune and record analog/digital/HD stations via Cable Card or with the over the air antenna connection (or both).

If you look at the front page of the guide it says "Series 2 and Series 3" so if the guide doesn't differentiate between the two for home media capabilities, shame on Tivo.

I went through this same issue. They don't differentiate in the guide regarding Series 2 and Series 3 available features. They just state that the guide covers Series 2 and 3, and then list out a bunch of features that are "available". It took me coming to the forums and posting before I found out that MRV and TTG were not active on TiVoHD's yet. Heck even if you read just the unit's manual there are one or two severely misleading statements in there are well.

I think Tivo Inc. really needs to rework their guides and materials , make some Series 3 specific guides and manuals.

If you do antenna and cable card (SD) can you record and SD and HD OTA at the same time.

I know these are probably dumb but I have searched and do not see the answer.

If you have an OTA antenna hooked up, you can record two channels at once with that. There is an internal splitter that splits the signal. If you have cablecard hooked up, you can also record 2 channels with that. It should also work in any combination of the two.

No, only the TiVo Wireless G Network Adapter allows a wireless connection to your home network.

Anyone know how true this is? Is this a requirement shared with all S3 boxes, or just the new HD one?

Already have a cheapo Linksys usb adapter running on my S2 box. Not looking forward to buying a Tivo branded adapter, especially since I can't even do transfers between boxes.

Sorry to post this WAY after your question, but for the record, this is not true. I was able to utilize a "decomissioned" game adapter from my Gamecube - the Linksys WGA11B Wireless-B Game Adapter. It connected fine, and I have been downloading software patches and Unbox programming wirelessly since last August. So there ARE wireless adapters out there that work...

Can one effectively only use a single CableCARD (S-Card) in your TiVo HD? The short answer is yes, but you lose all dual tuner capability, which is a real bummer.

For some reason I assumed that using a single CableCARD would limit me to 1-tuner recording the QAM from the cable provider and the other tuner could happily record OTA content from the antennae. Doesn't work that way. You need 2 S-Cards, 1 M-Card or none to get the dual tuners to actually work.